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Jforwalk, Conn., Wednesday Evening, July 22, 1891.- tu !. iii "tuu
'-I-.*--r?!!;'v . ,; T prxce One Cent.
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The Daily Gazette Mrs. M. P. Stone who has been ill
I, issue OT^efc-dwaJSP.^.at ^ for the^aet.tenjlays is #>le to be out
ever " •_ TIT—~ TH T> 'D«,A/> m tti oiririj* h QT
ONB CENT PEE COPY.
The Cheapest Bate:, for Advertising, and
THK'LABGEST CIBCULATION. •'
The Weekly Gazette, :'
[Combined with Fridav's Daily.]
Is issued e-verv Friday at Noon, at
; UltliE CENTS FEB COPY, OB $1.50 PER Y^ VB.
again. Mrs. E. B. Priee is visiting her
for a few days. } ;n -/> — r~-;
^Pribe/.Lee & Go., of New Haven, are
making arrangements to canvas Nor­walk
for a new directory, which is sad­ly
needed, the last one being totally
# uuroliaU* •;
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IKS CENTS PEB WEEK, OB $5.00 PEB YEAB. neer Wood were in consultation with
Mr. Geo. 0. Lockwood and his attor­ney
Mr. Hiirlbutt this morning relative
to the curb in front of the hotel.
The Daily and Weekly.
A. H. BYINGTON, Proprietor.
This paper has the largest circulation of
"i.// paper In the State wes of Bridgeport.
" OUR JOJiJtlJs O J)JEJ'AItTMISXT.
MB. HABBY M. GABDNEB, JB., of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE'S Engraving, $ook
iiid Jobbing Department. He is an expert
•aid experienced Job Printer, and no work en­trusted
to him will be unsatisfactorily done.
! Thomas Landrigan waa-arrestecl last
! night on a charge of being responsible
! for Miss Lottie Weed's illegitimate
j child. He was.put .under $200 bonds
' tfiis morning 'to appear next Monday.
THE LIVE- NEWS OF TO-DAY. :
Bridgeport is having quite an epi-d
emits of scarlet fever,
—Chew Harvey's Best fine cut To-babco\
• lwl46
Mrs^ W. S. Hurd, of Ansonia, is vis­iting
friends in town. . '
—Extra Fine Chewing Tobacco Har­vey's
Best. lwliC
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniver­sary
of the battle of Bull Run.
—Fancy Chewing Tobacco Harvey's
Best. lwl46
Steeple Charlie has just been mar­ried
and iB enjoying his honeymoon.
—Harvey's Best Tobacco only five
cents.. ' lwl46
The white squadron gave a beautiful
marine parade at New York last night.
Mrs. Edwin Hoyt and daughters, of
New Canaan, were in town to-day.
The Fitzsimmons-Hall prize 'fight
will undoubtedly come off at St. Paul,
to-night. •., Aj£ ^ C-A
large party of residents from upper
Main street are picnicing at Roton to­day.
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The Tennis Club gamesi postponed
from last Saturday will be played this
afteynoqn.^ i .W
jTohn C. Warden c|ied at his home,
139 Main street, yestgsday, aged 67
years.
Mason Sheldon expects to have the
foundation of St- Paul's chapel, on
West avenue, finished this week.
George M. Johnson, manager of the
Birmingham opera house, was yester­day
appointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff.
Tomlinson.
Joseph Story, one of our Nor walk
popular young tailors, has gone to New
York to take lessons from experts in the
art of cutting.
The venerable Mr. John Osborn,
whose serious illness was announced in
yesterday's DAILY GAZETTE, remains
aboijt Jhe same.
Mys. Fanny Elizabeth Davenport,
widow of the actor, E. L. Davenport,
#fld mother of the welUknown^actress
Fannie Davenport, is dead *
The venerable Mr. Moses Hill, one
of the copper fastened Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian democrats, of Redding, was
in town to-day.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Nor walk Gas Light Co., was held last
night, but no business of importance
was transacted, § '%
Buy? Smift Esq' has commenced to
twUd a verandarfor the front of hia re­cently
purchased Dr. Brown house, in
"Pudding Lane." r ;
Two would-be scrappers were inter
rupted by Officer Howard, on Water/
street, yesterday, and paid Judge Cpol-idge
$2 each for their If un. •" * *, * '
The funeral of Francis Smith Hin-man
takes place this afternoon from his
late residence on Newtown avenue at 2
O'clock. Friends are invited-
--B.J.Stephenson. Instructions giv­en
in horsemanship; good saddle horses;
best references. Circulars and inform­ation
to be obtained at J. A. Pinneo's
and of Col. Roberts . 143-lw
||g|fe:;
The Mead family, one and all, are
rapidly improving.- t!Mr. Mead sat up
for the first time yesterday and the lit­tle
girl, who has been the most danger­ously
ill of all, is most rapidly recover-.
in- f
Now that the Wood-Hoyt difficulty,
the Daskam trees and the Hunter, and
Bennett bank embroglios are.all s<ptle||
or in abeyance, the quieS and stillnesg
of East aveiiue^ is5' again?" becoming?1^
most deafning.
" Quite a large party of Nor walk young
people headed by Mr. Fred. Stanley,
joined a- stilllai-ger party of Stamford
young people, and took a rqoonlight
sail out on the sound in the steamer
Media, last night. Y
'JjLewis, the Brooklyn man who tried
to escape from a detective by jumping:-,
off of a moving train at Sputh Nor walk
last winter, was convicted of larceny by
a New York iury and .will probably en­joy
a forced retirement at Sing Sing.
CRITICISM;.—When Paradise Lost was
published, the celebrated Waller wrote
this passage: "The old blind school­master,
John Milton, hath published a
tedious poem oh the fall of man; if its
length be not considered as merit, it
hath no other.
Some twenty—of Norw-^lk's young
gentlewomen, chaperoned by the
Misses Lottie and Sallie Betts, chart­ered
Dann's big omnibus and four
horses, and drove to Compo Beach this,
morning, to take their regular annual
sea bath. -
To-morrow is the venerable and truly
honorable Eli K.?Street's 81st biithday.
It is a remarkable coincidence^ in the
lives ol two hofced citizens;of Norwalk;,
that he was b'oMi{on same|day of
the month ai^the lEditbr'of the "hust­ling
daily" GAZETTE.'
5~Frgderiek Fisher of N- Y- was arrest­ed
early this morning by Officer More­house
for having partaken too freely of
Norwalk intoxicants, As this; was his
firfet offence and his first experience
with the Norwalk brand of tangle-foot,
he.was let off for the usual $1 and^oostg.
I" I- »Pepy|^in..J^|t IV^^rs^thus^peapS
of Hudibras: ''When I came to read
it, it is so silly an abuse of the Presby­ter
knight going to the wars that I am
a,shamed of it; and by and by meeting
at Townsend's at dinner, I "sold it to
Mr. Battersby for eighteen pence."
' A poor Irish woman named Mary
Brennan, was punting ffir Sheriff Ton-pr
fl^ip .iifioii: to have the Thomases,
father and son, of North Wilto n, ar­rested
for, assaulting her while they
were drunk, a,s she alleges, and refus-
The Tennis Club will give an informal
dance on Saturday evening of this
week, at the Casino. Mr .Robert V an
Buren, the donor of the pl-izes will pre­sent
them to the winners of the tourna­ment.
A Bridgeport orchestra will fur­nish
music, and the pleasantevenings
usually enjoyed at the^i gatliljci^gs in-
3|^e^a la^e att®|^aii#. .f ^
f "Scotty" got those | fifty Sunday
school cadet kids safely back from the
lakes about six o'clock last night and
dumped them, out in front of the M, E.
church, where they just "made Rome
howl" with their high-keyed and vocif­erous
cheering. They all declared
they -nev^rf did; have"' duitfe. so good; a
time:— •"- -
HMail Carrier Bennett wa^ seeh'stalk­ing
it up Belden avenue last night with
that Madison Avenue Garden stride of
his and everybody rah to their front
gates to see the critter ' go so. Some
conjectured he1 was after the doctor,
others that he w'a? going to see.a iman
about a dog,Tbut it was only-one of
those ten cent special, .delivery letters
for Spring hill that drove him along so
fast. -. •
it
rj j-frr f f Stuck in the
lv>Thef Iron • Steamboat; Company's
steamer '"Cetus/' with an 'excursion
patty of 1,600 people from: Stamford
became fast in the mud>near the Bran-ford
Point clock yesjpday..., . . , ^
W(r. Blathe's |£§atithg|||
; The fast and loose, dispute, going on
among rival" newspapersto the con­dition
of Mr. Blaine's health, is really
becoming . disgusting and an offence to
the hoflfest sentiEb.fen^ the country^'
That-thd ^reat Secretary is kn over-workedmani
?vho hafi ' 'driven his horse;
too hard," as ihe common expression.
is, all men know who know any thing of
the enormous amount of routine official
and personalrWo^kfhe^has had to do.
When, ac]ded to this, is considered the
enormous mental strain involved in his
necessarily careful treatment of vexed
questions of international rights and
law of the gravest weight and character,
it is really a marvel.that the man is not
broken down. Beyond this .he has
been torn and rent with the sorest of
domestic ; bereavements and family
afflictions, and no wonder that at times
his Wonderful natural vigor and powers
of mind and body call a halt and de­mand
rest. The fact that he has a pe­culiar
pallor and, muscular flaeidity of
face, has, repeaWdly^ given rise to the
tumor that he was an incurably ill man
with Bright's disease of the kidneys.
This old chestnut the New York World
with great particularity of detail and
circumstance, has again just revived.:
The facts are that Mr. Blaine has worn
juat that sort of pallor all his life. Mr.
Blame is an overstrained man and re­quires
rest, but does he get it ?
The DAILY GAZETTE chances to know,
and we hope we do not improperly be­tray
any confidences, when we state
-that-' we have personal knowledge of
the fact that a daily mail is regularly
despatched from the State Department
to Mr. Blaine at Bar Harbor, embrac-ing^
pfll; njatfcersiof business b.efote that
bureauf -jfcbi *of thfe strictest routine
character; that on as many as three
occasions'since his rest-seeking in his •) 1.0
Maine cottage by the sea, special mes­sengers
have been despatched from the
State Department, to him, bearing
voluminous papers of urgency and
gravity, that required the Secretary's
immediate consideration, and which he
has ait once taken up, considered and
returnied by the special envoys.' In
addition to this, not a day passes
that the wires are -not laden- with
business messages to and from the Sec
retary and State Department. All this
does not encourage the World's idea of
Bright's disease in its "third stages.''
• "I-
.mm KILLED BY THE CARS.
An Extra Freight Train Kills a Gar-
0: peiitef at Southportifi 11
Isaac N. Smith* a carpenter, who has
I been employed on the new house of Mr.
; Looismith at Southport, met a horrible
j death last night. , He went to the depot
i to meet a brother and ocjusin who were
I to arrive at 8.25. After [the train had
J reached the place and ]^r. Smith had
! exchanged greetings with the new-
| comers they entered the depot to get a
I trunk and stepped out on the platform
j just as an east bound train passed by.
| They waited for it to pass and did not
• hear one.approaching on the west bound
; track. j
j|| Mr. Smith led the way, and had
' scarcely stepped iipon the track when
; the train struck him. He was hurled
• some distance and instantly killed. His
j brother, who Jjad hol^df the other end
i of the trunk, Scaped lijury.
! Dr. Donaldson, the medical exami-
! ner, was summoned and made an exam-
: ination. He found that the neck had
j been broken. The doctor will report
i to Coroner Doten, who will hold an in-
; quest to-day to ascertain whether the
, railroad employes were negligen|t.
j The dead man was abjput 46 years of
age. He had been forking at that
place but a few weeks. ^ He was a na­tive
of Hancock, Me. Besides a widow
' and child he leaves a large number of
relatives. He was an excellent work­man,
and during his short stay in
Southport made many fribnds.
Late last night the body was taken in
chairge by Undertaker .Bishop and^con^,
veyed to Bridgeport. :i •;
" Attention, Cornrades I :"s
—Look at this as a matter of busi" ,
ness. Comrade Fred A. Farley late of .
Co. F, 37th Mass. Yols. ,. is sub-attorney j
for James Tanner; the soldiers' friend, j
late Commissioner of Pensions, Wash­ington,
D- C., and will properly fill out .
fre;e 0? charge, all applications for pen- ,
sions or increase, back pay or bounty, j
removal of charge of desertion, etc. (
Comrades, you saved the, life of.this
government, now ask for what is yours,
and jyou Gan get _it by asking for it.
Never get a shoemaker to make you a
harness. This is our specialty.5 il can
tell you how you can be most bene­fitted.
Advice free. At Norwalk
Hotel until July 26.^ I shall visit every ;
town in Fairfield county, and will call
at .residences or places qf business!
upqn.not'iSP°% ?a?d; ... -> T 'i
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Art Of Advertising. >,* i
Whoever Tristram &-Hyatt employed j
;to spread abroad their announcements j
of the rich, rare and tempting goods !
stored in their dry goods emporium in |
the GAZETTE building, he certainly has ;
shown his fine sense of the true art in j
advertising and gone the religious crank j
who dccorates rocks and fences, one j
better. We suspect- it was Professor j
John Buxton, being possessed of the—,
or rather inspired thereto, by Lester
Hyatt; fof this is the way the barns,
pig-sties, chicken houses, fences, rocks
and all sorts of blank surfaces about
our rural roadways read: ' 'Prepare to
meet thy—" Tristram & Hyatt." '' 'Re­pent
orr go to" Tristram & Hyatt's.
''Eternity, awaits you at' Tristram &
Hyatt's. "Be saved by going to" Tris-trani
& Hyatt's." ' 'Escape eternal per­dition"
at Tristram & Hyatt's; Such
practical commercial utility was never
before made of the poor, old Scripture
crank's familiar stencil plate quotations
and everybody and his wife, and his
sisters, and his coiisins and his aunts
are talking about Tristram & Hyatt.
It is the greatest possible triumph in
the art of advertising, -when you xeach
that point where you are in everybody's
mind and mouth. . t'r ;
John Dingee.
The quiet and peaceful passing away
of John Dingee at 11.30 a. m., yester­day,
at his home on Roton Hill, as
sweet as an infant going to sleep, and
more like a heavenly translation than
an ordinary death, justifies our repro­duction
of the following little local
item that appeared in the DAILY GA­ZETTE
of Monday, Jan. 12th, following
his^visit to this office on Saturday, Jan.
10th, to pay his 68th consecutive annu­al
subscription: "
'• The venerable John Dingee of Ro-ton
Hill, now in his 89th year, made his
regular annual visit to our office on Sat­urday
and renewed his subscription to
the GAZETTE for the 68th consecutive
year. Unless some one rises to break
this record, we shall rate "Uncle John"
as our oldest subscriber. We believe
that Mrs. Jonathan Camp is the second
oldest, she having Jtaken the GAZETTE
for 65 consecutive years.'V
• - Don't Hide Things/ "
The attempt of Joe Began to hide his
money from his wife, recalls the inci­dent
qf the lamentable failure of a cer­tain
local tax collector last spring, who
attempted to cobl his champagne by
hiding-it in; a snqw bank beside his
door-yard fence. Some wicked boys
found and sampled it and finding it
most excellent cider, as they thought,
made sundry stealthy visits to the snow
drift till the bottles were all emptied
and the poor collector was left to la­ment
over his eifipty bottles
Military Notes. 15
Two companies of the Fourth regi­ment
were called out by telegraph from
the adjutant general*last night. Com--
pany K of Stratford received the call at
7.50 and at 8.25 had 30 men in the ar­mory.
The men "were scattered all over
the town when the call was received,
and the time made was considered very
good time. Company C, of Stamford,
received the call at 6.50 and at 8.30 had
50 per cent, of the men in line.
To-day an order will be issued from
the adjustant's office, naming the camp
at Niantic this year "Camp Watson."
Many Thanks, "
The DATT.V GAZETTE owes Fred. E.
Lockwood one. Indeed it owes him
about a bushel, for this morning he
sent us a basket of fat and toothsome
Mill Pond crabs, just as we were in the
most dire state of mental anxiety to
conjecture what kind neighbor would
send in our dinner. When, if ever we
are tempted to go for Fred and skin
him alive, a remembrance of his oppor­tune
kindness shall soften our heart in
his case, and we will temper justice with
mercy.
H.' : Big Money. '
The deposits officially reported to the
controller of the currency by the City
National Bank of South Norwalk, July
20th, are $332,107.92 and $11,686.91. or
a total of $343,794.83. A bank with
nearly three hundred and fifty thous­and
dollars of deposits would be al­most
as good to borrow money of as of
Burgess O'Reilly. ; •
; -.-:..:7r
. Real Mean., ,; , *
The Alpha Wheel club wheeled to
Compo Beach last evening where all
enjoyed a sea bath. Little Eddie, af­ter
taking his annual bath,.' discovered
that some real mean "person had stolen
his shoes and stockings and the poor
little boy had to wheel home by the
back road barefooted. ; ^ j
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" Badly Mixed. . ^ ;
Trains were badly mixed up on the
Consolidated R. R. in. New Haven last
night. A passenger train ran into a
switch engine, smashing up both en­gines
badly. After the wreck !. was
cleared away the Bridgepprt accom­modation
train jumped the track. ">
•fckdto
OBITUARY.
JOHN DINGEE. t H "I 4J O I
'there passed away to his eternal rest
yesterday morning, one of Norwalk's
oldest, if not most notable citizens, in
the person Of John Dingee of Roton
Hill. His father moved to Norwalk
when he was a little boy and he has
lived on the same spot where his pure
and upright.spirit took its departure,
yesterday, for a period of over eighty
years. On Saturday, January 10th
last, accompanied by his constant at­tendant,
his faithful daughter, he made
his regular annual visit to the office of
this paper and paid his sixty-eighth
consecutive subscription to the GAZETTE
His step was as elastic as most men of
sixty, his memory clear, and his inter­est
in passing events remarkably keen
and bright. He talked of the past and
present, with eager interest, and told
of his having subscribed for the
GAZETTE soon after he became of age
and of his having constantly taken and
read it ever since. He had been de­lighted
to note its growth and pros­perity
and was very; greatly pleased
that the old Weekly had grown to
where it could issue and maintain a
Daily. He spoke with a cheery re­membrance
and regard for the aged
mother of the GAZETTE editor, now liv­ing
in Washington, in her 87th year,
and who was a favorite schoolmate ol
his in the old Flax Hill district school,
eighty years ago, and of scores and
more of old friends,.. living and dead.
When we bade him good bye, we
could see no reason why our good, old
life-long friend might not continue
with us until he should round out a
full century of years. God knew best.
Enjoying his usual good health, he had
ridden out yesterday morning and re­turning
for dinner,. was himself un­hitching
his horse, when he fell in a
faint, was carried into the house and
the light of life went painlessly out as
a candle bums to the socket and ex­pires.
Mr. Dingee was a quiet, modest, un­ostentatious
and unassuming man. He
loved his few friends and the quiet and
privacy of his home. Probably the
only office he was ever induced to hold
was that of director in the First Na­tional
bank of South Norwalk, in which
he took a small amount of stock at the
time of its organization. His daugh­ter,
Miss Mary Dingee, who has re­mained
with and tenderly cared for him
all her life, only survives him, and to
her he leaves the rare and most affluent
of all legacies, the record of his excep­tionally
long life, without a single
cloud or stain or blemish, and the
memory that he lived and died one of
the noblest' works of God—an honest
JAMES BOT&E. ' "" * '
James Boyle, a well-known and pop­ular
cigar maker, died at his home on
Belden avenue yesterday morning.
"Jimmy," as he was familiarly known,
was about 30 years of age and married
a sister of Attorney J. J. Walsh.
Our Library.
The entertainment to be given for
the benefit of the Norwalk Library on
Friday night will be a success, judging
from the number' of tickets already
sold, and the evident interest shown
toward it. While it may seem ambi­tious
for amateurs to undertake one of
the plays of Shakespeare, yet the New
Canaan Dramatic Association have
given long study and careful rehearsal
to the "Comedy of Errors." They will
present it in elaborate detail and with
a faithful portraiture of the dresses of
that period; To ensure the correctness
of this feature its management has
been placed in the hands of one of the
best costumers of New York, and no
expense has been spared. The cast has
been critically selected, many of them
being well known to us, and embraces
more than twenty-five. It will offer an
opportunity for an evening's enjoyment
which should not be neglected, besides
aiding the Library.
"What Are the Wild Waves Saying?"
Mr. S. B. Wilson has leased a seaside
cottage of the Foster IBrothers at Bell
Island and to-morrow will take his fam­ily
down for a few weeks' sojourn by
the salt, salt sea. He takes his little boy
who has been ill of diphtheria, by di­rection
of the physician, who considers
him sufficiently recovered to go out, and
says the sea air will tone up the little
fellow's system as no other tonic will.
Bell Island is a charming spot and so
near that Mr. Wilson's varied building
contracts will not suffer, as he can be
on hand daily to superintend his work.
lis empvy uuuie* ^ ^ ^ ^
Aftgr a; Murderer.
Postal cards were received in this
city yesterday from Sheriff Brigham of
Hanover, N. H., offering $500 reward
for the capture of Frank Almy, who
murdered Miss Christie Warden, a<
pretty school teacher, who Had rejected'
him.. They are being sent aU over the
country. > 4 y, t £. V
Statue" iri%is Memory'Tny
- - ----- Lexington, Va.
at
GREAT CONCOURSE PRESENT
"If.B •"X ^ . N/'./ .'Ale,
L-Thc
Little College Town In Its Holiday-
Attire—Full Report of the Proceedings,
"Which Began in the Morning and/
Closed with a Banquet—The Statue. ; • 1 • • ' • •• • • . ' .!.ii I.
> A V' i'XfZ" • 'j-- e ft * i r
LEXIKOTOK, July 22.—Thirty years ago
today, on the battlefield of Bull Run,
General Thomas Jackson received the
sobriquet of "Stonewall, ">the^name by
which he is known the world, over and
which the southern people have since that
time applied to him as a term of endear­ment.
Today there was a grand outpour­ing
of ex-Confederates, who assisted in
the unveiling of a monument, to his, mem­ory
here. _v
The public buildings, business blocks
and private residences are handsomely
decorated; Red, white and blue is every-,
where to be seen, and the good old stars
and stripes float in the breeze from hun­dreds
of flag poles. On;many structures-national,
state and Confederate—battle
flags are artistically blended.
No less than 30,000 Confederates are in
town. They have come from every state
that cast, its lot with the secessionists..
Probably not less than 10,000 of the boys
who wore the blue are also here, and in
the throngs in the street the blue raiment
and brass buttons of the Grand Army of
the Republic are to be seen on every hand.
Today was ushered in by salvos of artillery
from Rock Bridge battery, Virginia Mili­tary
institute, and the West Point of the
Confederacy.
• ' 'Preliminary Exercises.-*'! '? •! .i '
At 11 o'clock the preliminary exercises
were held on the campus of Washington
and Lee university, where a grand stand
had been erected fronting the main build­ing
and overlooking a broad expanse of
rising ground, forming an amphitheater
equal to the accommodation of 40,000 peo­ple.
General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, was the presiding officer, and to
the right and left of him On the grand
stand were groups of surviving officers of
the Confederate army and navy and other
prominent persons.
' With a few words of greeting General
Hampton introduced the Rev. A. C. Hop­kins,
D. D., of Charleston, W. Ya,, and
who was chaplain of Stonewall Jacksoh's
staff, and who invoked the .blessing of the
Almighty on the country, and especially
commended to Divine Providence the wel­fare
of the southern states. Amid rous-:
ing cheers, which continued for several
moments, General Jubal A. Early was in-trodued
as the orator of today, and the.
grizzled veteran who, as General Hamp­ton
said in his introductory remarks, is
probably the best informed survivor in
the entire country on southern civil war
history, eloquently dilated oh the life,
character and military achievements of
the renowned warrior.
The poem by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston,
the well known
southern poetess,
was the next f^ar
ture of . the .• pro­gramme;
but it
was announced
from the chair
that she had been
unable as a result
of enfeebled
health to fulfill
ner promise to
prepare some ap­propriate
verses.
As a substitute
Colonel IT. M.
Semmes read the
Confederate war
poem, "Stonewall
Jackson's Way,"
and "6ver the
River." The pro­nouncing
of the
benedi9tion
cises to a conclusion, and the participants
in thq gathering at once began to form in
line foir the grand parade. Of this eg-
Goyernor General James A. Walker, the
Only surviving commander of Stonewall's
brigade, was chief marshal.
The Procession Moves. . '
Promptly at nQPn tie firing of a cannon
gave the signal for the, head of thp line to
move. General Walker and his aides le4
^he way. Then came tfce survivors of
Stonewall Jackson's brigade, some on foot,
others on horseback ana many old, en­feebled
or crippled, in'parriages.
Behind a band that tooted the familiar
strains of Dixie, came the stirvivgrs of
Staunton^, Poa^ue's and Carpenter's bri­gades—
2,000 of them—With Colonel \V\ %•
Poaghe in command. Then the Surviving
officers. Colonels Qummings, Gregsby, Ed-monson
and Willifims.
After these cam? carriages witty, the
honorary guests, the . orator, presiding
officers, the sculptor of the statfte,' MJ.
yalentine; Mrs. General Jackson and
Christian,. c" " "
.aonMn^d his.
'UliaJaojsson
^ tneililrcfdivisio^ Wefllih® members of
ie memorial wmf&ittee, under the ana-ices
of which the iflQney was r&iSed, niefh-of
the I»dW Jackson Manorial as-
|0raft®>h, the geqerM officers of pe|C<>n-
' ly, iSemding Getferals
H. Stuart, Bradley
,gh Lee aha Roger A.
jt the faculty antfbojjjrd
litary fstaff'of the5 Vir-te
States
josser,
ToHhston, FitzJ
^ryor/togetheri
$ visitors and military (S
ginia Military institute.
' In the fourth division was the Society of
the Army and Navy of the Confederate
States of the state of Maryland and a large
number of visiting veteran camps, includ-
'mg jjee feamp, of Richmond; the Ife-yvj Or-
Ifeahs v^erans. Tiger campj' of Salisbury,
Winchester camp-and yeter^ni gir-ganizations
from Maryland, Waslungtbn
Citi, Leesburg apd Rdwoke. Behmd the
yepran» ca&fe Io®l CMSlty cpmFaMeS
%
wltti lntantry ana. artnifefy a&d iSColBipaiiy
of'snarpshooiers. . .
T^e, sionumeQt Unfiled.* •
The watka along line OJE ma^di w^e
packed with spectatOi-s and $o were the
Windowsmnd ih piftnj cases the roofs of
the variousbuildJngs, and a^one noted sur-viVor
after another was reoognifced cheers
ran from block to block like the ephoes of
musketry. A very cordial reception was
given t£> Mfk Jackson- Twenty bands
ftirnishad music, and the familiar strains
of "Dixie" alternated with '^America."
"^he Bonnie Blue Flag" and other popu­lar
airsi The route was: so arranged as to
Include the grounds of the Virginia Mili­tary
institute, where for ten years General
Jackson Was a beloved professor.
It was nearly 2 o'clock before the main
body of the procession, had reached the
cemetery,: and not less than 30,000 people
had surrounded the tomb and statue when
the firing of a gun indicated that the exer­cises
were afboiit to' commence. As a pre­lude
the combined bands rendered" "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee," and then amid
rousing cheer»"little Julia Jackson Chris­tian,
granddaughter of the immortal war­rior,
gave a gentle pull to the cord and the
Veil which had hidden the heroic bronze
figure of .Stonewall Jackson from sight
fell away. As the canvas fell to the
ground the old survivors of Manassas, who
composed, the Rock Bridge battery, fixed a
salute of seventeen guns with the artillery
used in; that battle, while cheers from 40,-
000 throats rent the air. The procession
then reformed ..and returned to toiyn,
where lunch was served to the partici­pants.
Other Features.
In the, evening a banquet was tendered
to twenty-five members of the Southern
tociety of New Ifork, who, headed by
[ugh M. Gordon, participated in the pro­ceedings.
A large number of Union vet­erans
were also tendered a lunch thi? after­noon,
and in the procession the boys in
blue Were enthusiastically greeted..
~ " The Monument.
The statue which was dedicated is of
bronze, nine feet in height, and represents
General Jackson in full uniform, his coat
buttoned tightly around him and his
^word unstrung. The body is erect, with
the head uncovered, the eyes as if looking
into distance. The face is taken from the
dead mask, and is an excellent likeness,
while the clothes were modeled from the
garments and equipments of the deceased
general.
The hilt of. the sword shows in large let­ters
"U. S." This has created considera­ble
comment. The pedestal is of Virginia
granite, plainly dressed but beautiful in
design. ' The statue faces the south. On
the front is the inscription, "Jackson,
1624—1863." On the rear of the pedestal
the simple word, "Stonewall."
Edward Valentine, of Richmond, is the
sculptor. Beneath the plinth is the crypt in
which repose the remains of General Jack­son,
his baby daughter and Julia Jackson
Christian. The remains of General Jack­son
were removed at 5 o'clock on the morn­ing
of June 25 last, from the grave in the
City cemetery, where it was interred at
the time of his death, and placed in the
vault,-the latter then being sealed up per­manently.
It was Mrs. Jackson's request
that the body should be removed in the
night, and that no one should know of it
but the committee . in charge. This re­quest
Was strictly complied with.
it is now fifteen years since the move­ment
for the erection of the .monument
originated. Its total cost was §25,000, all
of which was contributed by ex-Confeder­ate
veterans and southerners who revere
the memory of Stonewall Jackson. Con-liderabie
aid was rendered by the ladies of
the south, and it was largely due to their
efforts that the movement culminated in
ie success of today.
. . . . . . . .
Gould and Western Koads.
NEW YORK, July 22.—In a long inter­view
with a reporter of The Evening Post
jay Gould today enters a general and
specific denial of the statements made
public since the recent meeting of the ad­visory
board .of the Western Traffic asso­ciation
at the Windsor hotel, in this city,
chat he was "disgusted with his railroad
associates fqr not adopting the joint
agency plan*," that he absented himsell
from thl Subsequent sessions of the board
oh this account; that he received £it tne
first session "the plain intimation that he
was trying to use the association for his
own ends, and that the other lines pro­posed
to have an equal chance or disrupt
the association;.'! that "President Cable,
of the Rock Island railroad, was credited
with having led the (Opposition to him at
that meeting," etc. r;V";
Sevill, Sciiofleld. Son & Co.'s Troubles.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.—The financial
troubles of the great textile firm, Messrs'
SeVill, Schofield Son & Co., have proved
to be much more, serious than was at first
supposed. The]appraisement of the firm's
property is now made public also the offer
of Mr. Schofield of twenty-five cents cadi
or; fifty cents ih unsecured notes at 0,12,
18, 24 and . 30 months. Thp statement
shows assets 8568,169 and liabilities $§29,-
334. ; Several creditors are willing to accept
the cash offer while others think it is not.
enough- Pinal arrangements will be made
in a few days. ,
Home Again. 'y^
E. C. Whitney reached home to-day
after,a year and a half's absence in Sid­ney,
Australia. He is the wide-awake
son of Artist E. T. Whitney and has
traversed the eleven thousand miles of
land and water to pay a short visit to
his friends. 5, ; - v
Found.
Fotriid near Compo Beach and
brought to the DAILY GAZETTE' office, a
black stocking 84 inches long, with 14-
inch foot and 4J inches leg circumfer­ence.
The. owner is requested to call,
prove property, "pay for this advertise­ment,
and take it away. g'j.'C"1 '
• : . . ;:: ^
I " "-^The Largest Schooner. . .
The Lucinda Sutton,the largest four-masted
schooner ever built in Con­necticut,
was launched yesterday morn­ing
from the shipyard of Henry Sutton,
West Haven. The length of keel is 206

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The Daily Gazette Mrs. M. P. Stone who has been ill
I, issue OT^efc-dwaJSP.^.at ^ for the^aet.tenjlays is #>le to be out
ever " •_ TIT—~ TH T> 'D«,A/> m tti oiririj* h QT
ONB CENT PEE COPY.
The Cheapest Bate:, for Advertising, and
THK'LABGEST CIBCULATION. •'
The Weekly Gazette, :'
[Combined with Fridav's Daily.]
Is issued e-verv Friday at Noon, at
; UltliE CENTS FEB COPY, OB $1.50 PER Y^ VB.
again. Mrs. E. B. Priee is visiting her
for a few days. } ;n -/> — r~-;
^Pribe/.Lee & Go., of New Haven, are
making arrangements to canvas Nor­walk
for a new directory, which is sad­ly
needed, the last one being totally
# uuroliaU* •;
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IKS CENTS PEB WEEK, OB $5.00 PEB YEAB. neer Wood were in consultation with
Mr. Geo. 0. Lockwood and his attor­ney
Mr. Hiirlbutt this morning relative
to the curb in front of the hotel.
The Daily and Weekly.
A. H. BYINGTON, Proprietor.
This paper has the largest circulation of
"i.// paper In the State wes of Bridgeport.
" OUR JOJiJtlJs O J)JEJ'AItTMISXT.
MB. HABBY M. GABDNEB, JB., of New York,
has charge of the GAZETTE'S Engraving, $ook
iiid Jobbing Department. He is an expert
•aid experienced Job Printer, and no work en­trusted
to him will be unsatisfactorily done.
! Thomas Landrigan waa-arrestecl last
! night on a charge of being responsible
! for Miss Lottie Weed's illegitimate
j child. He was.put .under $200 bonds
' tfiis morning 'to appear next Monday.
THE LIVE- NEWS OF TO-DAY. :
Bridgeport is having quite an epi-d
emits of scarlet fever,
—Chew Harvey's Best fine cut To-babco\
• lwl46
Mrs^ W. S. Hurd, of Ansonia, is vis­iting
friends in town. . '
—Extra Fine Chewing Tobacco Har­vey's
Best. lwliC
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniver­sary
of the battle of Bull Run.
—Fancy Chewing Tobacco Harvey's
Best. lwl46
Steeple Charlie has just been mar­ried
and iB enjoying his honeymoon.
—Harvey's Best Tobacco only five
cents.. ' lwl46
The white squadron gave a beautiful
marine parade at New York last night.
Mrs. Edwin Hoyt and daughters, of
New Canaan, were in town to-day.
The Fitzsimmons-Hall prize 'fight
will undoubtedly come off at St. Paul,
to-night. •., Aj£ ^ C-A
large party of residents from upper
Main street are picnicing at Roton to­day.
/;• V:; J ^ .. .
The Tennis Club gamesi postponed
from last Saturday will be played this
afteynoqn.^ i .W
jTohn C. Warden c|ied at his home,
139 Main street, yestgsday, aged 67
years.
Mason Sheldon expects to have the
foundation of St- Paul's chapel, on
West avenue, finished this week.
George M. Johnson, manager of the
Birmingham opera house, was yester­day
appointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff.
Tomlinson.
Joseph Story, one of our Nor walk
popular young tailors, has gone to New
York to take lessons from experts in the
art of cutting.
The venerable Mr. John Osborn,
whose serious illness was announced in
yesterday's DAILY GAZETTE, remains
aboijt Jhe same.
Mys. Fanny Elizabeth Davenport,
widow of the actor, E. L. Davenport,
#fld mother of the welUknown^actress
Fannie Davenport, is dead *
The venerable Mr. Moses Hill, one
of the copper fastened Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian democrats, of Redding, was
in town to-day.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Nor walk Gas Light Co., was held last
night, but no business of importance
was transacted, § '%
Buy? Smift Esq' has commenced to
twUd a verandarfor the front of hia re­cently
purchased Dr. Brown house, in
"Pudding Lane." r ;
Two would-be scrappers were inter
rupted by Officer Howard, on Water/
street, yesterday, and paid Judge Cpol-idge
$2 each for their If un. •" * *, * '
The funeral of Francis Smith Hin-man
takes place this afternoon from his
late residence on Newtown avenue at 2
O'clock. Friends are invited-
--B.J.Stephenson. Instructions giv­en
in horsemanship; good saddle horses;
best references. Circulars and inform­ation
to be obtained at J. A. Pinneo's
and of Col. Roberts . 143-lw
||g|fe:;
The Mead family, one and all, are
rapidly improving.- t!Mr. Mead sat up
for the first time yesterday and the lit­tle
girl, who has been the most danger­ously
ill of all, is most rapidly recover-.
in- f
Now that the Wood-Hoyt difficulty,
the Daskam trees and the Hunter, and
Bennett bank embroglios are.all sThef Iron • Steamboat; Company's
steamer '"Cetus/' with an 'excursion
patty of 1,600 people from: Stamford
became fast in the mud>near the Bran-ford
Point clock yesjpday..., . . , ^
W(r. Blathe's |£§atithg|||
; The fast and loose, dispute, going on
among rival" newspapersto the con­dition
of Mr. Blaine's health, is really
becoming . disgusting and an offence to
the hoflfest sentiEb.fen^ the country^'
That-thd ^reat Secretary is kn over-workedmani
?vho hafi ' 'driven his horse;
too hard," as ihe common expression.
is, all men know who know any thing of
the enormous amount of routine official
and personalrWo^kfhe^has had to do.
When, ac]ded to this, is considered the
enormous mental strain involved in his
necessarily careful treatment of vexed
questions of international rights and
law of the gravest weight and character,
it is really a marvel.that the man is not
broken down. Beyond this .he has
been torn and rent with the sorest of
domestic ; bereavements and family
afflictions, and no wonder that at times
his Wonderful natural vigor and powers
of mind and body call a halt and de­mand
rest. The fact that he has a pe­culiar
pallor and, muscular flaeidity of
face, has, repeaWdly^ given rise to the
tumor that he was an incurably ill man
with Bright's disease of the kidneys.
This old chestnut the New York World
with great particularity of detail and
circumstance, has again just revived.:
The facts are that Mr. Blaine has worn
juat that sort of pallor all his life. Mr.
Blame is an overstrained man and re­quires
rest, but does he get it ?
The DAILY GAZETTE chances to know,
and we hope we do not improperly be­tray
any confidences, when we state
-that-' we have personal knowledge of
the fact that a daily mail is regularly
despatched from the State Department
to Mr. Blaine at Bar Harbor, embrac-ing^
pfll; njatfcersiof business b.efote that
bureauf -jfcbi *of thfe strictest routine
character; that on as many as three
occasions'since his rest-seeking in his •) 1.0
Maine cottage by the sea, special mes­sengers
have been despatched from the
State Department, to him, bearing
voluminous papers of urgency and
gravity, that required the Secretary's
immediate consideration, and which he
has ait once taken up, considered and
returnied by the special envoys.' In
addition to this, not a day passes
that the wires are -not laden- with
business messages to and from the Sec
retary and State Department. All this
does not encourage the World's idea of
Bright's disease in its "third stages.''
• "I-
.mm KILLED BY THE CARS.
An Extra Freight Train Kills a Gar-
0: peiitef at Southportifi 11
Isaac N. Smith* a carpenter, who has
I been employed on the new house of Mr.
; Looismith at Southport, met a horrible
j death last night. , He went to the depot
i to meet a brother and ocjusin who were
I to arrive at 8.25. After [the train had
J reached the place and ]^r. Smith had
! exchanged greetings with the new-
| comers they entered the depot to get a
I trunk and stepped out on the platform
j just as an east bound train passed by.
| They waited for it to pass and did not
• hear one.approaching on the west bound
; track. j
j|| Mr. Smith led the way, and had
' scarcely stepped iipon the track when
; the train struck him. He was hurled
• some distance and instantly killed. His
j brother, who Jjad hol^df the other end
i of the trunk, Scaped lijury.
! Dr. Donaldson, the medical exami-
! ner, was summoned and made an exam-
: ination. He found that the neck had
j been broken. The doctor will report
i to Coroner Doten, who will hold an in-
; quest to-day to ascertain whether the
, railroad employes were negligen|t.
j The dead man was abjput 46 years of
age. He had been forking at that
place but a few weeks. ^ He was a na­tive
of Hancock, Me. Besides a widow
' and child he leaves a large number of
relatives. He was an excellent work­man,
and during his short stay in
Southport made many fribnds.
Late last night the body was taken in
chairge by Undertaker .Bishop and^con^,
veyed to Bridgeport. :i •;
" Attention, Cornrades I :"s
—Look at this as a matter of busi" ,
ness. Comrade Fred A. Farley late of .
Co. F, 37th Mass. Yols. ,. is sub-attorney j
for James Tanner; the soldiers' friend, j
late Commissioner of Pensions, Wash­ington,
D- C., and will properly fill out .
fre;e 0? charge, all applications for pen- ,
sions or increase, back pay or bounty, j
removal of charge of desertion, etc. (
Comrades, you saved the, life of.this
government, now ask for what is yours,
and jyou Gan get _it by asking for it.
Never get a shoemaker to make you a
harness. This is our specialty.5 il can
tell you how you can be most bene­fitted.
Advice free. At Norwalk
Hotel until July 26.^ I shall visit every ;
town in Fairfield county, and will call
at .residences or places qf business!
upqn.not'iSP°% ?a?d; ... -> T 'i
• V -! •«» • t • ' ~ |
Art Of Advertising. >,* i
Whoever Tristram &-Hyatt employed j
;to spread abroad their announcements j
of the rich, rare and tempting goods !
stored in their dry goods emporium in |
the GAZETTE building, he certainly has ;
shown his fine sense of the true art in j
advertising and gone the religious crank j
who dccorates rocks and fences, one j
better. We suspect- it was Professor j
John Buxton, being possessed of the—,
or rather inspired thereto, by Lester
Hyatt; fof this is the way the barns,
pig-sties, chicken houses, fences, rocks
and all sorts of blank surfaces about
our rural roadways read: ' 'Prepare to
meet thy—" Tristram & Hyatt." '' 'Re­pent
orr go to" Tristram & Hyatt's.
''Eternity, awaits you at' Tristram &
Hyatt's. "Be saved by going to" Tris-trani
& Hyatt's." ' 'Escape eternal per­dition"
at Tristram & Hyatt's; Such
practical commercial utility was never
before made of the poor, old Scripture
crank's familiar stencil plate quotations
and everybody and his wife, and his
sisters, and his coiisins and his aunts
are talking about Tristram & Hyatt.
It is the greatest possible triumph in
the art of advertising, -when you xeach
that point where you are in everybody's
mind and mouth. . t'r ;
John Dingee.
The quiet and peaceful passing away
of John Dingee at 11.30 a. m., yester­day,
at his home on Roton Hill, as
sweet as an infant going to sleep, and
more like a heavenly translation than
an ordinary death, justifies our repro­duction
of the following little local
item that appeared in the DAILY GA­ZETTE
of Monday, Jan. 12th, following
his^visit to this office on Saturday, Jan.
10th, to pay his 68th consecutive annu­al
subscription: "
'• The venerable John Dingee of Ro-ton
Hill, now in his 89th year, made his
regular annual visit to our office on Sat­urday
and renewed his subscription to
the GAZETTE for the 68th consecutive
year. Unless some one rises to break
this record, we shall rate "Uncle John"
as our oldest subscriber. We believe
that Mrs. Jonathan Camp is the second
oldest, she having Jtaken the GAZETTE
for 65 consecutive years.'V
• - Don't Hide Things/ "
The attempt of Joe Began to hide his
money from his wife, recalls the inci­dent
qf the lamentable failure of a cer­tain
local tax collector last spring, who
attempted to cobl his champagne by
hiding-it in; a snqw bank beside his
door-yard fence. Some wicked boys
found and sampled it and finding it
most excellent cider, as they thought,
made sundry stealthy visits to the snow
drift till the bottles were all emptied
and the poor collector was left to la­ment
over his eifipty bottles
Military Notes. 15
Two companies of the Fourth regi­ment
were called out by telegraph from
the adjutant general*last night. Com--
pany K of Stratford received the call at
7.50 and at 8.25 had 30 men in the ar­mory.
The men "were scattered all over
the town when the call was received,
and the time made was considered very
good time. Company C, of Stamford,
received the call at 6.50 and at 8.30 had
50 per cent, of the men in line.
To-day an order will be issued from
the adjustant's office, naming the camp
at Niantic this year "Camp Watson."
Many Thanks, "
The DATT.V GAZETTE owes Fred. E.
Lockwood one. Indeed it owes him
about a bushel, for this morning he
sent us a basket of fat and toothsome
Mill Pond crabs, just as we were in the
most dire state of mental anxiety to
conjecture what kind neighbor would
send in our dinner. When, if ever we
are tempted to go for Fred and skin
him alive, a remembrance of his oppor­tune
kindness shall soften our heart in
his case, and we will temper justice with
mercy.
H.' : Big Money. '
The deposits officially reported to the
controller of the currency by the City
National Bank of South Norwalk, July
20th, are $332,107.92 and $11,686.91. or
a total of $343,794.83. A bank with
nearly three hundred and fifty thous­and
dollars of deposits would be al­most
as good to borrow money of as of
Burgess O'Reilly. ; •
; -.-:..:7r
. Real Mean., ,; , *
The Alpha Wheel club wheeled to
Compo Beach last evening where all
enjoyed a sea bath. Little Eddie, af­ter
taking his annual bath,.' discovered
that some real mean "person had stolen
his shoes and stockings and the poor
little boy had to wheel home by the
back road barefooted. ; ^ j
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" Badly Mixed. . ^ ;
Trains were badly mixed up on the
Consolidated R. R. in. New Haven last
night. A passenger train ran into a
switch engine, smashing up both en­gines
badly. After the wreck !. was
cleared away the Bridgepprt accom­modation
train jumped the track. ">
•fckdto
OBITUARY.
JOHN DINGEE. t H "I 4J O I
'there passed away to his eternal rest
yesterday morning, one of Norwalk's
oldest, if not most notable citizens, in
the person Of John Dingee of Roton
Hill. His father moved to Norwalk
when he was a little boy and he has
lived on the same spot where his pure
and upright.spirit took its departure,
yesterday, for a period of over eighty
years. On Saturday, January 10th
last, accompanied by his constant at­tendant,
his faithful daughter, he made
his regular annual visit to the office of
this paper and paid his sixty-eighth
consecutive subscription to the GAZETTE
His step was as elastic as most men of
sixty, his memory clear, and his inter­est
in passing events remarkably keen
and bright. He talked of the past and
present, with eager interest, and told
of his having subscribed for the
GAZETTE soon after he became of age
and of his having constantly taken and
read it ever since. He had been de­lighted
to note its growth and pros­perity
and was very; greatly pleased
that the old Weekly had grown to
where it could issue and maintain a
Daily. He spoke with a cheery re­membrance
and regard for the aged
mother of the GAZETTE editor, now liv­ing
in Washington, in her 87th year,
and who was a favorite schoolmate ol
his in the old Flax Hill district school,
eighty years ago, and of scores and
more of old friends,.. living and dead.
When we bade him good bye, we
could see no reason why our good, old
life-long friend might not continue
with us until he should round out a
full century of years. God knew best.
Enjoying his usual good health, he had
ridden out yesterday morning and re­turning
for dinner,. was himself un­hitching
his horse, when he fell in a
faint, was carried into the house and
the light of life went painlessly out as
a candle bums to the socket and ex­pires.
Mr. Dingee was a quiet, modest, un­ostentatious
and unassuming man. He
loved his few friends and the quiet and
privacy of his home. Probably the
only office he was ever induced to hold
was that of director in the First Na­tional
bank of South Norwalk, in which
he took a small amount of stock at the
time of its organization. His daugh­ter,
Miss Mary Dingee, who has re­mained
with and tenderly cared for him
all her life, only survives him, and to
her he leaves the rare and most affluent
of all legacies, the record of his excep­tionally
long life, without a single
cloud or stain or blemish, and the
memory that he lived and died one of
the noblest' works of God—an honest
JAMES BOT&E. ' "" * '
James Boyle, a well-known and pop­ular
cigar maker, died at his home on
Belden avenue yesterday morning.
"Jimmy," as he was familiarly known,
was about 30 years of age and married
a sister of Attorney J. J. Walsh.
Our Library.
The entertainment to be given for
the benefit of the Norwalk Library on
Friday night will be a success, judging
from the number' of tickets already
sold, and the evident interest shown
toward it. While it may seem ambi­tious
for amateurs to undertake one of
the plays of Shakespeare, yet the New
Canaan Dramatic Association have
given long study and careful rehearsal
to the "Comedy of Errors." They will
present it in elaborate detail and with
a faithful portraiture of the dresses of
that period; To ensure the correctness
of this feature its management has
been placed in the hands of one of the
best costumers of New York, and no
expense has been spared. The cast has
been critically selected, many of them
being well known to us, and embraces
more than twenty-five. It will offer an
opportunity for an evening's enjoyment
which should not be neglected, besides
aiding the Library.
"What Are the Wild Waves Saying?"
Mr. S. B. Wilson has leased a seaside
cottage of the Foster IBrothers at Bell
Island and to-morrow will take his fam­ily
down for a few weeks' sojourn by
the salt, salt sea. He takes his little boy
who has been ill of diphtheria, by di­rection
of the physician, who considers
him sufficiently recovered to go out, and
says the sea air will tone up the little
fellow's system as no other tonic will.
Bell Island is a charming spot and so
near that Mr. Wilson's varied building
contracts will not suffer, as he can be
on hand daily to superintend his work.
lis empvy uuuie* ^ ^ ^ ^
Aftgr a; Murderer.
Postal cards were received in this
city yesterday from Sheriff Brigham of
Hanover, N. H., offering $500 reward
for the capture of Frank Almy, who
murdered Miss Christie Warden, a<
pretty school teacher, who Had rejected'
him.. They are being sent aU over the
country. > 4 y, t £. V
Statue" iri%is Memory'Tny
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GREAT CONCOURSE PRESENT
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Little College Town In Its Holiday-
Attire—Full Report of the Proceedings,
"Which Began in the Morning and/
Closed with a Banquet—The Statue. ; • 1 • • ' • •• • • . ' .!.ii I.
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LEXIKOTOK, July 22.—Thirty years ago
today, on the battlefield of Bull Run,
General Thomas Jackson received the
sobriquet of "Stonewall, ">the^name by
which he is known the world, over and
which the southern people have since that
time applied to him as a term of endear­ment.
Today there was a grand outpour­ing
of ex-Confederates, who assisted in
the unveiling of a monument, to his, mem­ory
here. _v
The public buildings, business blocks
and private residences are handsomely
decorated; Red, white and blue is every-,
where to be seen, and the good old stars
and stripes float in the breeze from hun­dreds
of flag poles. On;many structures-national,
state and Confederate—battle
flags are artistically blended.
No less than 30,000 Confederates are in
town. They have come from every state
that cast, its lot with the secessionists..
Probably not less than 10,000 of the boys
who wore the blue are also here, and in
the throngs in the street the blue raiment
and brass buttons of the Grand Army of
the Republic are to be seen on every hand.
Today was ushered in by salvos of artillery
from Rock Bridge battery, Virginia Mili­tary
institute, and the West Point of the
Confederacy.
• ' 'Preliminary Exercises.-*'! '? •! .i '
At 11 o'clock the preliminary exercises
were held on the campus of Washington
and Lee university, where a grand stand
had been erected fronting the main build­ing
and overlooking a broad expanse of
rising ground, forming an amphitheater
equal to the accommodation of 40,000 peo­ple.
General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, was the presiding officer, and to
the right and left of him On the grand
stand were groups of surviving officers of
the Confederate army and navy and other
prominent persons.
' With a few words of greeting General
Hampton introduced the Rev. A. C. Hop­kins,
D. D., of Charleston, W. Ya,, and
who was chaplain of Stonewall Jacksoh's
staff, and who invoked the .blessing of the
Almighty on the country, and especially
commended to Divine Providence the wel­fare
of the southern states. Amid rous-:
ing cheers, which continued for several
moments, General Jubal A. Early was in-trodued
as the orator of today, and the.
grizzled veteran who, as General Hamp­ton
said in his introductory remarks, is
probably the best informed survivor in
the entire country on southern civil war
history, eloquently dilated oh the life,
character and military achievements of
the renowned warrior.
The poem by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston,
the well known
southern poetess,
was the next f^ar
ture of . the .• pro­gramme;
but it
was announced
from the chair
that she had been
unable as a result
of enfeebled
health to fulfill
ner promise to
prepare some ap­propriate
verses.
As a substitute
Colonel IT. M.
Semmes read the
Confederate war
poem, "Stonewall
Jackson's Way,"
and "6ver the
River." The pro­nouncing
of the
benedi9tion
cises to a conclusion, and the participants
in thq gathering at once began to form in
line foir the grand parade. Of this eg-
Goyernor General James A. Walker, the
Only surviving commander of Stonewall's
brigade, was chief marshal.
The Procession Moves. . '
Promptly at nQPn tie firing of a cannon
gave the signal for the, head of thp line to
move. General Walker and his aides le4
^he way. Then came tfce survivors of
Stonewall Jackson's brigade, some on foot,
others on horseback ana many old, en­feebled
or crippled, in'parriages.
Behind a band that tooted the familiar
strains of Dixie, came the stirvivgrs of
Staunton^, Poa^ue's and Carpenter's bri­gades—
2,000 of them—With Colonel \V\ %•
Poaghe in command. Then the Surviving
officers. Colonels Qummings, Gregsby, Ed-monson
and Willifims.
After these cam? carriages witty, the
honorary guests, the . orator, presiding
officers, the sculptor of the statfte,' MJ.
yalentine; Mrs. General Jackson and
Christian,. c" " "
.aonMn^d his.
'UliaJaojsson
^ tneililrcfdivisio^ Wefllih® members of
ie memorial wmf&ittee, under the ana-ices
of which the iflQney was r&iSed, niefh-of
the I»dW Jackson Manorial as-
|0raft®>h, the geqerM officers of pe|C<>n-
' ly, iSemding Getferals
H. Stuart, Bradley
,gh Lee aha Roger A.
jt the faculty antfbojjjrd
litary fstaff'of the5 Vir-te
States
josser,
ToHhston, FitzJ
^ryor/togetheri
$ visitors and military (S
ginia Military institute.
' In the fourth division was the Society of
the Army and Navy of the Confederate
States of the state of Maryland and a large
number of visiting veteran camps, includ-
'mg jjee feamp, of Richmond; the Ife-yvj Or-
Ifeahs v^erans. Tiger campj' of Salisbury,
Winchester camp-and yeter^ni gir-ganizations
from Maryland, Waslungtbn
Citi, Leesburg apd Rdwoke. Behmd the
yepran» ca&fe Io®l CMSlty cpmFaMeS
%
wltti lntantry ana. artnifefy a&d iSColBipaiiy
of'snarpshooiers. . .
T^e, sionumeQt Unfiled.* •
The watka along line OJE ma^di w^e
packed with spectatOi-s and $o were the
Windowsmnd ih piftnj cases the roofs of
the variousbuildJngs, and a^one noted sur-viVor
after another was reoognifced cheers
ran from block to block like the ephoes of
musketry. A very cordial reception was
given t£> Mfk Jackson- Twenty bands
ftirnishad music, and the familiar strains
of "Dixie" alternated with '^America."
"^he Bonnie Blue Flag" and other popu­lar
airsi The route was: so arranged as to
Include the grounds of the Virginia Mili­tary
institute, where for ten years General
Jackson Was a beloved professor.
It was nearly 2 o'clock before the main
body of the procession, had reached the
cemetery,: and not less than 30,000 people
had surrounded the tomb and statue when
the firing of a gun indicated that the exer­cises
were afboiit to' commence. As a pre­lude
the combined bands rendered" "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee," and then amid
rousing cheer»"little Julia Jackson Chris­tian,
granddaughter of the immortal war­rior,
gave a gentle pull to the cord and the
Veil which had hidden the heroic bronze
figure of .Stonewall Jackson from sight
fell away. As the canvas fell to the
ground the old survivors of Manassas, who
composed, the Rock Bridge battery, fixed a
salute of seventeen guns with the artillery
used in; that battle, while cheers from 40,-
000 throats rent the air. The procession
then reformed ..and returned to toiyn,
where lunch was served to the partici­pants.
Other Features.
In the, evening a banquet was tendered
to twenty-five members of the Southern
tociety of New Ifork, who, headed by
[ugh M. Gordon, participated in the pro­ceedings.
A large number of Union vet­erans
were also tendered a lunch thi? after­noon,
and in the procession the boys in
blue Were enthusiastically greeted..
~ " The Monument.
The statue which was dedicated is of
bronze, nine feet in height, and represents
General Jackson in full uniform, his coat
buttoned tightly around him and his
^word unstrung. The body is erect, with
the head uncovered, the eyes as if looking
into distance. The face is taken from the
dead mask, and is an excellent likeness,
while the clothes were modeled from the
garments and equipments of the deceased
general.
The hilt of. the sword shows in large let­ters
"U. S." This has created considera­ble
comment. The pedestal is of Virginia
granite, plainly dressed but beautiful in
design. ' The statue faces the south. On
the front is the inscription, "Jackson,
1624—1863." On the rear of the pedestal
the simple word, "Stonewall."
Edward Valentine, of Richmond, is the
sculptor. Beneath the plinth is the crypt in
which repose the remains of General Jack­son,
his baby daughter and Julia Jackson
Christian. The remains of General Jack­son
were removed at 5 o'clock on the morn­ing
of June 25 last, from the grave in the
City cemetery, where it was interred at
the time of his death, and placed in the
vault,-the latter then being sealed up per­manently.
It was Mrs. Jackson's request
that the body should be removed in the
night, and that no one should know of it
but the committee . in charge. This re­quest
Was strictly complied with.
it is now fifteen years since the move­ment
for the erection of the .monument
originated. Its total cost was §25,000, all
of which was contributed by ex-Confeder­ate
veterans and southerners who revere
the memory of Stonewall Jackson. Con-liderabie
aid was rendered by the ladies of
the south, and it was largely due to their
efforts that the movement culminated in
ie success of today.
. . . . . . . .
Gould and Western Koads.
NEW YORK, July 22.—In a long inter­view
with a reporter of The Evening Post
jay Gould today enters a general and
specific denial of the statements made
public since the recent meeting of the ad­visory
board .of the Western Traffic asso­ciation
at the Windsor hotel, in this city,
chat he was "disgusted with his railroad
associates fqr not adopting the joint
agency plan*," that he absented himsell
from thl Subsequent sessions of the board
oh this account; that he received £it tne
first session "the plain intimation that he
was trying to use the association for his
own ends, and that the other lines pro­posed
to have an equal chance or disrupt
the association;.'! that "President Cable,
of the Rock Island railroad, was credited
with having led the (Opposition to him at
that meeting," etc. r;V";
Sevill, Sciiofleld. Son & Co.'s Troubles.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.—The financial
troubles of the great textile firm, Messrs'
SeVill, Schofield Son & Co., have proved
to be much more, serious than was at first
supposed. The]appraisement of the firm's
property is now made public also the offer
of Mr. Schofield of twenty-five cents cadi
or; fifty cents ih unsecured notes at 0,12,
18, 24 and . 30 months. Thp statement
shows assets 8568,169 and liabilities $§29,-
334. ; Several creditors are willing to accept
the cash offer while others think it is not.
enough- Pinal arrangements will be made
in a few days. ,
Home Again. 'y^
E. C. Whitney reached home to-day
after,a year and a half's absence in Sid­ney,
Australia. He is the wide-awake
son of Artist E. T. Whitney and has
traversed the eleven thousand miles of
land and water to pay a short visit to
his friends. 5, ; - v
Found.
Fotriid near Compo Beach and
brought to the DAILY GAZETTE' office, a
black stocking 84 inches long, with 14-
inch foot and 4J inches leg circumfer­ence.
The. owner is requested to call,
prove property, "pay for this advertise­ment,
and take it away. g'j.'C"1 '
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I " "-^The Largest Schooner. . .
The Lucinda Sutton,the largest four-masted
schooner ever built in Con­necticut,
was launched yesterday morn­ing
from the shipyard of Henry Sutton,
West Haven. The length of keel is 206